Wilkinson CALL

(1834-1910)

Senate Years of Service:

1879-1897

Party:

Democrat

CALL, Wilkinson, (nephew
of Richard Keith Call and cousin of James David Walker), a Senator
from Florida; born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., January 9,
1834; attended the common schools; moved to Jacksonville, Fla.;
studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced; served as adjutant
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; elected to
the United States Senate on December 29, 1865, but was not
permitted to take the seat; member of the Democratic National
Executive Committee; practiced law in Jacksonville; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1879; reelected in 1885 and
1891 and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1897; chairman,
Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fifty-third Congress),
Committee on Patents (Fifty-third Congress); retired and resided in
Washington, D.C., until his death on August 24, 1910; interment in
Oak Hill Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present